Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-09
A SECRET SACIFIC.
UNVEILED UPON THE TIClM'S
DEATH-BE Ed.

LIE o Anguish Here in tHope OF
Happiness iii Heaven.
From tie 81. Louis sam
IL was a simple dsath noe-a few
lines IN the daily paper-but recorded
the going out of the life of abman who
had been called upon to endulnuch, and
did endure 1t.
hers was case where lty barred
bliss, and woman's wondS strength
pad been adequate to masacritice of
herself and to put from htnat which
sac craved more than life ilf.
Lovely even in death. s%as lovelIer
In life, with a degree of bety not easily
expressed in words. BJ those who
kne" ner, and they were my, traced in
the lines OF her fair face aott-told tale
OF good birth and gifted nnre linked to
poverty.
la early life she had bome known
throughout st. Louis bvner deeds of
cnarlty and conscientioutnd ceaseless
eHorts 10 promote the ierests of the
saddened members of heIex, she had
joVed and was beloved by onw homatched
her nature thoroughly. hilVes OF a
once severed soul that ftt4 to iacn other
would have made an lndissluiy strong,
perfect unity, We're thse Two. But
duty pointed out an1tA 'pth. FIlial
rove and other mountaineering possible
10 overcome, compelled a GrIhce, and
she quenched the fire dra wpom The in
most depths Of nature and
Welded wITHoUToNE.
Inc name She took upOp erselt was an
honored one in the anna OF st. Louis,
though with her death re other day it
passed ouJ of existence, ; no descsn nd
ants are left and no hes were born of
r. rI flsir a N
she wed was material willy. he kne w
mat she respected him al tn ut she wore
his name with honor al was content.
He neither looked for owe nor cOmpre-
hended Ii, nor cared fClt. Enough for
nm That she heid tOard him kindly
feeling; that be own her beauty and
that his name attainedIew iustre through
Der wearing il.
Her life since her hptal day had been
lonely one, an enfoced existence, light
ed only by the star equity, Heaven sent
no baby to cheer heponesOme vigil, while
her proud husband dallied at the club.
No tiny blessing came, though often
craVed; no sweet life with clustering
ringiets; no eyes look in hers. If she
thought in her iOnIy hours OF what might
have been, she payed Heaven and the
angels 10 help he crush those feelings;
TO give her stragth to do her duty, to
fulfill her missi0. And she came of con-
queror in this liter battle of life.
While her husband lived she pleased
his preference Dr. society. He delighted
TO deck her beuty in costliest apparel
and fashion; diamonds glittered and
CLEANED and g)wed with flashing scin-
tlllations from er breast and hair. She
looked at their mCcklng splendOr and in
her inmOst hear regarded them as crys-
tallized tears. This woman, wondrOus
FRir, seemed fl 10 be the centre or the
brilliant circle and her courtly phrase S
ppeared natual to all but herself; such
as her matches skill in this theatre
Allow society 1t was While with smiles
ION her velvG lips, and apparently gay
e of the gay she was leading the ger
mn in her prlOr, adorned with rarest
tSe and antique art, that her husband
eIdead-heart disease.
3 she had respected him in life, so she
mel his memory in kindly remem brance
anCshard The wealth he left her with
the utfedng and the poor. The lot in life
thatA had gwen her she continued
TO enNire aud used it nobly.
But ately she took Ill and, as disease
elaine It's victim, the fOunt of memory
that Id so long slumber came with a
gush, if uncOnsciously she mad re-
moVedthe close-seal stone, and bub-
bling RterS in large volume rushed forth
Sc BABBLED OF THE BROOKS,
and he past seeming to come back to her
memoI, she became girl once more in
though and, as she lived the story over,
she tOl her attendants in burning word s
someWat of her earlier and only love;
how he spirits darlington he, too, was
now Cad-had used to walk with her
throug close-wooded thickets and bah
bling cooks; how his dear hands mad
caresse her fondly and then had come
the frs sweet kiss Of perfect love; how
this ha been succeeded by another and
yet anoler, and bliss ragged on in each
soul; hw despair and love alternated as
they BOZ realized that circumstances re-
CURED leir parting, and when and now
came tb last wild embrace and kiss and
ecstasyf bliss before the stroke fell that
murderd two lives, they striking the
blow themselves that wrenched their love
apart.
1t wapathetic and poetic, that relation
OF early owe, told in the chamber at the
cOntineSof which death was even now
lingering. And toward the end, when
the mar1ate OF release from this world OF
sutierin. was almost delivered, the en-
rapture, eyes seemed to see the lover in
tie distance reckoning, and to hear bis
voice cdllng, for she murmured with her
last brath of their claiming each other,
VI eOuR IGuullluRs anu LHeH Win bUllIe
serapnc she departed this world of care
in the assurance OF meeting her George
in hea'en.
Heaven knew it all, doubtless--at leas
she died in that bellef-and gladly babe
adieu to earthly torture, welcoming death
as the unbending of sorely stricken
spirit. Her torn and tortured heart was
at peace.
The ladies who had been in attendance
marveled among themselves at this rea-
ton, and naturally from marveling came
to talking to others OF the occurrence.
Thus 1t comes about that the story of a
sacrifice, told upon death-bed, finds pub
lclty; and if the name is withheld, what
matter? 1t will soon be added to the in
scriptlOn upon a mausoleum in Bellefon-
tame, where already appears the name OF
him for whom she wore 1t; and if the name
is otherwise cherished, it will be in the
memory of those suffering ones who shared
her benetactions i'll life, without a thought
that their benetact0r was a greater sui
terer than themselves, even as pangs of
the heart are more intense than the cray
ings for foOu.